Segregated proms… in 2009.
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2009 and the south is still klassy.
I’m waiting for Rush to utter some bullshit about “preserving heritage” on this!
Your modern Republican party: still awesome.
Not the south…Georgia, and rural Georgia at that. Rural Georgia is the south of the south.
WWKBD?
It isn’t racism. It’s tradition.
I would like to sort one thing out. This is rural Georgia and not Atlanta Georgia where things are much different but you are kidding yourself if you think this is a white on black “tradition”. Maybe not in this case particularly, but Southern culture is openly racist towards each other. One thing you will see down South whether you are black or white, is nice to your face and hateful behind your back. My view is that there is plenty of hate to spread around, but luckily this crap is disapating and not growing in the South. Kids are just not tie into the hatred that thier parent’s were.
CSS – I’d keep this story bookmarked the next time somebody goes after you for bringing up the Southern Strategy.
Why do you talk so badly about “tradition”? If it’s “tradition” then it’s automatically okay!
They have a way of doing it legally — no school funds are used for the segregated prom. If it’s what they want, so be it.
What the situation cries out for is a “Footloose” kind of student movement where a few white rabble-rousers show up for the segregated prom with black dates. Wouldn’t it be fun if a few white couples each showed up with a black couple, claiming to be interracial couples? Once inside they can pair back up if they like, but it’d be entertaining to watch…
J.
Sean D. Martin,
“It isn’t racism. It’s tradition.”
Tradition is never racist right?
Jim Crow was the codification of tradition, And guess what?
This is what Bill O’Reilly means when he talks about “traditional Americans”
Tradition is never racist right?
I suspect you missed some sarcasm in Sean’s tone.
There are days when plain text suck for communicating.
What the situation cries out for is a “Footloose” kind of student movement
The Limbaugh Republicans would never stand for it.
I saw and read a little (but not all–sigh) of the NY Times Mag article. The good news is that they segregate because their parents couldn’t abide it otherwise, and their parents pay the bills, etc. So it’s no contradiction to my theory that racism will die out in the inevitable march of young generations.
Wonder if that’s the reason there are no integrated couples, that white parents would be apoplectic.
WWKBD?
Kevin Bacon?
Grumpyman:
Sean D. Martin,
“It isn’t racism. It’s tradition.”
Tradition is never racist right?
Jim Crow was the codification of tradition, And guess what?
You do realize I was being sarcastic, right?
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Eric Sipple: I suspect you missed some sarcasm in Sean’s tone. There are days when plain text suck for communicating.
No kidding. I swear half the you said/I saids that happen here wouldn’t flare up so bad if there was a way to include inflection in these glowing pixels.
Kevin Bacon?
Give that man a cigar and a TFJ!
Quaker, I swear I had NO idea you were talking about Kevin Bacon. It frightens me that we both had the same general idea…
J.
Jump back!
It frightens me that we both had the same general idea…
Then take some comfort in the fact that I, as usual, came up with it first.
Yes, you did, Quaker. Because you saw the article first.
Next up: Strowbridge starts playing “Six Degrees Of Southern Strategy…”
J.
Nah, no point. There’s never more than one degree.
Damn. Didn’t think that one through, Parthenon. You’re absolutely
rightcorrect.J.
I don’t think that came across how I meant it. I meant that a subset of southern conservative politicians hardly seem to bother hiding their racial attitudes these days.
Sean D. Martin,
My apologizes.
Compared to some of the things said by cons in these very “pages” is far more … inane(?).
Hmph. Seems to me the best solution is to eliminate the proms altogether. Waste of parents’ money, says I.
Sorry, Parthenon. I took your remark to mean that Strowbridge could connect ANYTHING to “the Southern Strategy” not in six steps, but in one.
J.